The 1983 Murder of Esther Broberg

How does a family find justice when the perpetrator is found mentally incompetent for his sins?

Credit: Austin Police Department

On Sunday, May 22, 1983, at 9:30 am, a passerby in East Austin’s Givens Park found the body of Esther Gevara Broberg, 35. Only three miles from her home, she had been stabbed eleven times in her neck, cheek, back, and buttocks. She’d also been run over with a car. Her clothes were strewn around her naked body…